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Patented Aug. 1, 1944 UNITED STATES PAT E NT O F Fl C f CARD GAME.- v Andrews. Kinney, Redwood Falls, Minn.V Application-November 16, 1942, Serial No. 465,743

1 Claim- (Cl. 27s-152) This invention relates. to a cardV game, one of the objects being to provide a newV and novel meanswhereby children can be instructed inthe fundamentals of the calendar year, namely, the months, weeks, days of the week, changes of season.. A. M; andP. M. ofthe day, hours of the day and minutes. While thejgame. isespecially use ful for educational purposes it can also be em.- ployed entertainingly by adults.

A further object is to provide a deck of cards on, which are displayed clock faces indicating different times of theday and night, there being supplemental indications on the cards fordesignating the days of the week the months of the year, the number of days in the months, and changes of season.

A further object is to provide. a deck made up of two suits, one constituting aday suit and the other: constituting a night suit while in addition thereto there are supplemental cards known as Sunday cards andajokeror Leap Year card.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear asthe description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details of'construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out4 in the claim,4 it being Vunderstood thatA changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of: parts without departingV from thespirit of the inventionl as claimed.

In the accompanyingl drawings the preferred forniV of the invention has `been shown.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a face view of the weekedayv cards o f the night suit.

Figure` 2 is a facefview of the week-day cards of; the day suit.

Figure 3 is a face view-of the Sunday cards of the4 night suit.

Figure 4 isa face view of' the Sunday cards of the day suit. v

Figure 5 is a face viewofthe joker or Leap Year" card.

As will be noted by reference to the drawings, the deck of cards is made up of a night suit and a day suit together with a joker. 'Ihe night suit can be printed in blackwhile thel day suit can be printed in red although other` colors could4 be employed. The night suitis divided into twelve week-day cards andi two Sunday cards and the day suit is similarly divided. Y

y Inv addition to the cards of the two suits;there is providedy a` joker or Leap Year.v card illustrated inFigh. It ispreferred to make the top half offthis card to correspondv ln'color to that shown inFig. 2 areprinted the notications Be-1 This notication is also due of one suit While the bottomv half corresponds in color to that of the other suit, theV top partA in Fig. 5 belonging'to the night suit while` the lower part in said gure belongs to theday'suit: It will be noted that each card of each suit is designated by a day ofthe week. Forlexample the day cards of each suit arel divideclinto` two groups, each group beinggdesignated"bythe days of' the Weekl from Mondayto Saturdayy inclusive.' The cards of the night suit; however,gbear thef further designation of the hours from 1V tol2 P. M., the first Monday card being designated 1 P. M., the iirst Tuesday card being designated 2, P. M. andso on throughout the twelve cards the last Saturday one of whichis designated 12 P. M2" shown in Fig. 2, the first Monday card ofthe suit isdesignatecl 1 A. the Tuesday card is designatedfZ A. M and so on throughoutthe series, `of twelve cards thelast or Saturday card of which is designated 12 A.'M.` V

Each card of each suit has the, sainel designationat both of its, endsthe designations be ing oppositely disposed. Each card., of` each suit is also provided with two large clock faces indicated at l, the clock faces beingk opposit'ely dis,- posed and indicating the time of day designated in the title portion of. the card. For example the first Monday card of the4 night suit in Fig 1' indicates. one oclock while. the, second or -Tuesday card indicates two oclock.V ThisL is, continued throughout the suit of twelve cards.v the lastjof which indicates twelve oclock. g

Between the clock faces of the nightv suit. is the printed notification. Begins at4 noon. This' notication appears twice atk this point..A one be;-

ing disposed oppositely tothe otherso'as to4 be legible when the card is positioned with either end uppermost.

Betweenthe clock faces on the day cards gins at midnight. plicated, one being disposed oppositely to the other so that the information is legible when the cardis positioned'with either end uppermost;

In'addition to the two large clock" faces aps pearing on each card, smaller clock facesv-corre` sponding therewith are located in diagonallyopposed corners as indicated at 2. these small clock'` facesl designating the Sametime asA thelarger ones. Adjacent to each ofthe smaller clockfaces is alsoprinted an abbreviation ofthe day of, the; week designated adjacent to the large clock faces.

` 'The twelve week-day cards; of each suitl are further designated by the month Ofthefyear; In

In the day suit, however,

l day cards of eachsuit.

Attention lis directed to the fact that while the week-day cards of one suit indicate the same hour of the day as does the corresponding card of the other suit, said suits diier in that the cards of one suit bear a further designation P. M. while the day cards of the other suit bear the designation A. M. Likewise the cards of the night suit bear the designationfBegins at'` noon while the cards of the day suit bear the i designation Begins at; midnight. i V`In addition to the Week-day cards of the two suits, there areprovidedtwo Sunday cards for each suit. The Sunday cards of the night suit are shown in Fig. 3. The Aclock faces onone of 'thesecards indicate twelve oclock while the clock faces on the other card indicate six oclock. The twelve oclock card is designatedVlZ P. M. adjacent to the word Sundayfand carries the'further designations September 23rd autumn be- Agirls and 12 hours in P. M." The second card of the night suit bears the designations f6 P. M., .December` 21stv winter begins" and v,52 weeks in afyear. l

, The Sunday cardsv in the day suit diiferfrom those of the night suit in that'the designations thereon in addition to the word Sunday are 12 A. M. One of these Sunday cards in Fig. 4 bears the further designation March 20th spring begins and 60 minutes in 'an hour while the other Sunday cards bear the designation June 21st' summer begins and 12 hours in A. M.l In lFig. there is shown a joker or Leap Year card. 'Ihis is not alwaysusedv but is vemployed in the game' whenever some predetermined'penalty is to be imposedupon the holder thereof or the holder is to"be given a certain advantage' to be determined by the rules of the game. 'This `joker orfLeaprYear card, shown in Fig. 5, has vits clock'faces indicating eleven oclock and one end thereof bears the designation P. M. while the other lend bears: the designation 'A. MJ Fur'- ther designations appearing Ion this 'card are February 29th comes every" four years and fYear of ladieschoice. Different gamescan be played by theuse of these cards theprima'ry purpose being to' give instructions in time' and in the days, weeks; months and -seasons of the year.` p f The following are the rules of one game'which can be played with these cards: Afterfthe cards have been wellr shuilled' four cards 'are dealt` froml the deck to each of fthe playersf 2lromtwotol fourplayers'can engage in :the game'. AFollowing dealing lof the 'cards' the remainder of thedeck is turned face-@down and the iinla'y'er".to-fthe left of the dealer begins lby drawi'ngftp card of :the'deckfand lays' their play inthe eenter of kthe,table-all 'Sunday cards must lbe laid ,rst 'and assoon'as 'they are drawn. Books beginV with-Sunday 6 '&' 12 and' ends'vwith Saturdavy, 6 & l2-ea`ch book is one vWeek and makes fourjweeks in the deck.` f

SaturdaylZand Monday 1 plays onSu'r'idayiZ r Year -card but lomitting the six oclock Sundayv 1 and dealing them to the players.

suit. Each player must draw before playing and play as many cards as they choose. As the play is made the day and hour must be called-when a, player is through playing or cannot play, he calls the word TimeJ Errors in playa- Any player making a mistake in the time of laying cards, must draw a card from the deck. If the deck is drawn, he draws from the players hand that calls the error.

The player that rids hisrhand of cards before the last card'on the books is played wins the game.

In the foregoing game the joker need not be used although it could be employed either as a penalty or as an advantage. I Another game-utilizing the joker or Leap cards can be played by shuffling the cards Well The highest -Day carddeals. Monday (one, low) and Saturday (twelve, high) Deall cards; one around to the left. Turn remainder of deck'face-down'. The plage-The two Sunday cards must be played as soon as drawn and placed in the middle of the table. Player to the left of dealer draws'the top card. Books' are built `onSun day. lcards starting from Monday (one)V to Saturday (twelve)` ofthe same suit.' The 'only card a player can jpass the `play on is the Leap Year card which is wild and can be played on any day or suitv at anytime after Sunday. The other suit .cards mu'stlnotbe passed' on but may be played one or more as the player chooses: For example If three cards in the hand can be played and one is played, this is not an errorffor the player has not passed withoutplaying andinay force the opponent to playonfboks that the player has a high card on. This may help the player win the game.

Errors-The player that makes a mistake in laying cards, draws a card from thefpla'yer Vwho calls it. f v Scoring-#The vplayer that, rids his hand4 of cards'before the last card on the books' is played', winsfth'e game. f v l It is possible also to playa game ofSolitairewith. the cards,'the Leap Year or joker card being'I eliminated. In this game the Sunday cards mustbe' laid up first and books are built up in rotation of the dia1`and must'be of the same suit.r Forexainple: Monday l `plays on Sunday 12 and Monday '7 play'sy'on Sunday 6 through to saturday v6 and 12 l naking four weeksinall. l. Hold the deck yface-down and'dealfthreefcards at a time through the deck, always lay face up. Play asmany cards aspossible from the top card down. Deal the deck over as long asryou play. When. the Player Gant play. Qn books. by; delg three cards through the deck, then ,he starts dealing two cards at ai time. Never shuillethe deck until the game is over. This game can' be 955315.91? @nad/era@ Qf. W0 01' three; timfSPul'aOf .As before. stated the mer qadcou'ld tensed inA all `,of y the gamesv if desired by. modifications of What is claimed isf: .Y y l f .A card game includingltwo suits of cards bearf ing the indicia A. M. and .P. M,v respectively, each s u/it including .twelveAcards;designated'by therespective names ofthe months of thefyear, saidmontw cards vof `each" suit v b'eingfjdividd into; six pairspthe cardsf'of'eah 'pair' beingfurV ther designated by the six days of the Week, Athe cards of each group of a suit being provided with opposed duplicate clock faces thereon each indicating an hour of the day diiering from that indicated on the other card of the same group, there being two Sunday cards included in each suit, the Sunday cards of one group bearing the indicia A. M. and the name of one month of the year and the Sunday cards of the other group bearing the indicia. P. M. and the name of another month, the Sunday cards of each group having clock faces indicating diierent hours of the day.

ANDREW S. KINNEY. 

